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Life is a search after power.

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Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

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We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.

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Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

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Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

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There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

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The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.

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English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

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The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

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But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.

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The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.

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We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.

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The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.

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When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick. Their young life is thatched with them. Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hang it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune.

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In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

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What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

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